China’s top official in Hong Kong says Beijing backs city’s leader

China’s top representative in Hong Kong said on Thursday the central government in Beijing maintained its support for Chief Executive Carrie Lam, who is grappling with the city’s greatest political crisis since it returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

Wang Zhimin, director of the Liaison Office of the People’s Government in Hong Kong, criticized the violence that has broken out at some of the protests, including the July 1 break-in and ransacking of the territory’s legislature.

Wang repeated a Chinese government assertion that “foreign forces” were behind the unrest, and a small number of Hong Kong people were willing to be used to create trouble.

Millions of people have taken to the streets of Hong Kong in the past month in some of the largest and most violent demonstrations in decades to protest against a proposed extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial.
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